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Hokitika Guardian, 9 May 1924, Page 4

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TRADE FDR GERMANY. MORE EXPORTS TO BRITAIN WITH LOWER IH"1Y. LONDON March 12. Imparts <■[ German goods into llii •nullify have taken a leap nit ward* nice the reilt: lions of the Reparation? Inly from 2‘> it; 5 per cent, on I'ebrairy 2<h

Exact will probably not hi available until the returns ler March are issued. The efl'ecL of the redactV.:i was immediate, and many eon Ira:-Is lor forward delivery of good.: have been signed.

“IT" fact i ■' the settlement ni tbe question would have resulted in

- -.too ■:?.! of iiicr. asc." said a noliii-ia! of tile Board. “Ever since last auluiiiu the iiiieerlainit vo fill;* position la: ; hi on l ad f w tiv.de. but tin* re.i'tea much greater increase than would have been the ease had a settlement left the duty at 2(> per cent."

WOMEN AT WORK. LONDON, March J. Psychology is being used to test tile capabilities of young dressmakers. in one of the largest linns in London, said Dr Charles S. Myor.s. diicetor of the National Institute ol Industrial Psychology, ill a lecture last night on vocational tests at the Royal Society of Arts, girl-apprentices in group* of 2-1 undergo a o.j minutes’ “trial." They are tested jot : Speed in knotting, threading and pricking. Perception of parallel and bisecting lines. Co-ordinating eve with hand movement. Lightness and touch.

Observation ami memory. Psychological tests were applied to their employees by more than .99 firms in the United States and in many European Kountries and Japan. Germany made no secret of her aspiration-* that by concentrating on the human problems of industry and eomlnerco she might attain that success in the present century which she won in the past century hv devotion to the mechanical aspects of the-. subject.